(choir-)screen
21Hereford Screen — The Hereford Screen is a great choir screen designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811 1878) and made by Coventry metalworking firm Skidmore Co. for Hereford Cathedral, England in 1862. It was one of the greatest Gothic Revival works in iron of… …
22rood screen — noun A carved screen that separated the chancel and nave in a medieval church; it originally carried a large crucifix Syn: chancel screen, choir screen …
23rood screen — noun a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel • Hypernyms: ↑screen • Part Holonyms: ↑church, ↑church building * * * noun : a screen separating the chancel of a church from the nave and often surmounted by a cross or… …
24rood screen — a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church. [1835 45] * * * ▪ architecture in Western architecture, element of a Christian church of the Middle Ages or… …
25Treorchy Male Choir — Treorchy Male Voice Choir is a choir based in Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley, Wales, United Kingdom. Choirs have existed in the Rhondda Valley for more than a hundred and fifty years and Treorchy is one of the best known from the area. One of its …
26Ante-choir — Ante choir, the term given to the space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood screen andthe door of the screen; sometimes there is only one rail, gate ordoor, but in Westminster Abbey it is equal in depth to one bayof …
27Rood screen — Rood Rood (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS. r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. {Rod} a measure.] 1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it. [1913 Webster] Note:… …
28rood screen — rood′ screen n. archit. a screen separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church • Etymology: 1835–45 …
29rood screen — n technical a decorated wooden or stone wall in a Christian church which divides the part where the ↑choir sit from the part where other people sit …
30organ screen — noun an ornamental screen between the choir and the nave in some cathedrals and large churches, above which the organ is placed …
